Par panel recommends Rs 30L package for West Pak refugees

A Parliamentary panel has strongly recommended for early finalisation of one-time financial package of Rs 30 lakh to each family of West Pakistan refugees settled in Jammu and Kashmir.

The department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs is of the considered view that even if West Pakistan refugees cannot be equated with the Kashmiri Pandits migrants, but they deserve immediate relief and rehabilitation for sustenance without delay.

“The Committee strongly recommends that the central government should impress upon the state government for early finalisation of one time financial package of settlement of West Pakistan refugees. One time compensation of Rs 30 lakh may be provided within one year and there should not be any delay in the matter,” the panel said in its report.

The Committee expressed its displeasure over the indifferent attitude of the Jammu and Kashmir government to the problems of West 

Pakistan refugees saying the state government has not furnished proposal to the Union Home Ministry to procure one-time financial package/compensation to west Pakistan refugees who are otherwise in dire need of immediate relief and rehabilitation for sustenance.